Which Authors Do You Buy in Hardback?

[Heather Myst]

I do the same thing with my jackets Bick.

 

[Rodders]

Me too.

 

[zaltys13]

Yeah me as well. There pretty worthless without a pristine dust jacket, never snip the price tag!

 

[ratsy]

I leave the jacket in the bookshelf spot where the book typically would sit. The book stays naked until I am done reading it. Then it again gets to wear it's jacket, regardless of the weather...

And on topic, I have Magician's End by Feist and The Rithmatist by Sanderson in hardcover on the way to my house this week!!

I know the new Sanderson is YA but I still can't wait to read it.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

For those who collect and enjoy these hardbacks (and I do get it), what do you do with the dust jackets while you're reading the books? I remove them and keep them somewhere safe as they are a royal pain the the ass, and I would crease them for sure. In my house HB's only wear their dust jackets when they're sat on the shelf. Am I odd doing this, or is this common?

If they're collectible I am unlikely to read them long enough to take the cover off (but most of our collection is poetry so I dip in, enjoy, put away), for mass market hbacks I don't worry about the dustjacket. Bottom line, if it was so valuable I had to be worried about the dustjacket and I loved it enough - which I would have to invest in - I'll have a trashy pback version bought cheap second hand for reading in the bath.

 

[Grimward]

Definitely Zelazny and Donaldson from K. Riehl's list, plus Janny Wurts and Terry Brooks (the last mainly because most of my offerings from him are already hardback). Tolkien if I ever find a nice leatherbound edition on the cheap (I have everything else from him that I'm likely to buy, and most in each format). Tad Williams, without question. Finally, for no particularly definable reason, William Gibson.

 

[Gumboot]

I've never bought hardbacks, simply because of the expense. Books are insanely expensive here as it is, due to the limited market and long distance. Hardbacks are ridiculous.
Since I bought my Kindle I haven't bought a single physical book at all.

 

[Menion]

A fair few.

Peter V. Brett
Joe Abercrombie
Stella Gemmell
Brent Weeks (If he gets back into the Night Angel world.)
Scott Lynch
Terry Pratchett
Patrick Rothfuss
Brian Mcclellan
Stephen Deas (If he goes back to the Thief-Takers Apprentice world.)

 

[kromanjon]

The ones that are cheap.

Besides I don't really like hardbacks. Too bulky. Though pocket is too small, hard to flip through and easy to lose ones place. I guess I prefer trade paperback(?), though the term does confuse me somewhat. I've never been good at these terms and us swedes do use other terms as well like large pocket (I like those).

 

[Mariella]

Hardbacks are expensive but I do have some.

Weis & Hickman (original DragonLance authors)
George R R Martin
Elizabeth Moon
Ari Marmell (YA Widdershins series that I could never find in paperback)
Bernard Cromwell
Mike Resnick
R M Meluch
oh yeah and this guy called J R R Tolkien.

 

[MPorter]

Neil Gaiman. I think he's the only one that I actively seek out the moment something new becomes available. Everyone else I'm pretty content to wait for the pocketbook or for a used copy.

Tim Powers is a close one though. I own most of his books too and quite a few in hardcover but those have been mostly gifts.

~Mike

 

[Hari Seldon]

Hardcovers I usually pick up:

Eric Larson
A Song of Fire and Ice series
Patrick Rothfuss
Scott Lynch
Neil Gaiman
Joe Abercrombie
Anthologies
Clavell

 

[Rafellin]

Only if it's cheaper than the paperback and I really like the book.

Otherwise, the only must on H/B are the 'Richard Castle' novels.

 

[sennydreadful]

Gosh, these days it's just Terry Pratchett I think - but then I have always been very fond of paperbacks, largely because I can squish them into my handbag with ease.

 

[BenSt]

George RR Martin
Anne Rice
JRR Tolkien
Gregory Maquire

 

[Hari Seldon]

I also buy David McCullough in Hardcover.

 

[tylenol4000]

I have very obscure tastes, at least with most people i talk to.

The 2 main and probably ONLY authors i buy in hardcover when first released are Whitley Strieber and Eric Bogosian. Unless of course, it's on sale...

 

[Rodders]

I want to go back and get Dan Abnett's Gaunt's ghosts in hardback and I'd like to get Toby Frost's Space Captain Smith in hardback.

 

[Lilmizflashythang]

I prefer hardbacks. If it's something I like, and I can get it in hardback, that's where I'm heading. Like Tolkien, Preston & Child's soon, Koontz, things like that.

 

[GeoffNelder]

I prefer hardbacks because they usually have larger print than mass paperbacks. China Mieville books, Pratchett, early Gollancz in their yellow dustcovers. Mostly from secondhand shops but I cheekily add some to my Amazon wishlist for birthdays etc.